Reminded we'd never seen this through Graham Norton rewatch featuring the sadly late Chadwick Boseman, who seemed like a good presence.
Story and screenplay by Adam Mervis and Matthew Michael Carnahan is fun as cocaine heist goes wrong, eight cops are dead so renegade detective Boseman decides to shut down Manhattan to catch killers. What do you mean, that's totally unbelievable? It's only until the next morning! But then - corruption sets in.
Lots of good (though sometimes hardly plausible) action makes it fun (though interestingly, not really exciting - didn't feel heart rate going up). Lots of NYC locations used, through they're all remarkably unpopulated. Shoot-out in meat factory is different, though that sort of sequence goes back as far as Powell & Pressburger's Contraband.
With Sienna Miller, J.K. Simmons, Stephan James (Selma, If Beale Street Could Talk, Race as Jesse Owens), Taylor Kitsch, Keith David.
Nicely photographed by Paul Cameron with a sort of Michael Kamen-ish soundalike score. Edited by Tim Murrell (Patrick Melrose).
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